Word: pleaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost constitutionally unable to resist friends or acquaintances who plead for her time or her help. When the late Serge Koussevitsky urged her to do a recorded version of the musical fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf, she hesitated only long enough to be sure he was serious before hustling obediently off to Tanglewood to synchronize herself with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
Lawrence D. Shubow '43 will plead for Struik, and Howard S. Whiteside '34 for Winner although the other two attorneys. Oliver S. Allen and Hubert C. Thompson, will be present. Neither defendant will attend. District Attorney George Thompson will represent the state, and Judge Donahue will preside...
Finally he received permission to plead his case before the Supreme Court. Representing the other side was a well-balanced roster of legal talent that included Thomas C. Clark (then Assistant to the Attorney General), Solicitor General Charles C. Fahy, an Army major-general, and three Department of Justice attorneys. Nevertheless, Billings won the decision, the Supreme Court forcing the Army to turn him over to civil courts...
Blood & Billions. General Alphonse-Pierre Juin, inspector-general of the French army, had been dispatched to Washington to plead France's case. The French were frankly alarmed. General de Lattre de Tassigny, the leader on whom France, and France's friends, had counted, was out of the battle (see below). The guerrilla warfare the French had been fighting since 1946 had already cost more casualties than those suffered by the U.S. in Korea-including the equivalent of three entire classes from St. Cyr, France's West Point, and ten sons of French generals. It had also cost...
...been misinformed: apparently there was no old Dutch tradition about breaking into churches, after all. The Dominicans' door was repaired and tightly locked, the action committee renounced further action, and the people of Huissen settled down to nurse a last hope-that the nuncio in The Hague would plead their cause at the Vatican...